Human judgment and social policy irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice [WorldCat Entities]

"This work focuses on how social policy grows out of the policymaker's judgment about what to do, what can be done, and what ought to be? Answers necessarily emerge from human judgment, and from human error and the unavoidable uncertainty in the world."@en
"From Dramatic courtroom confrontations to international peace-making missions, the critical role of human judgment - complete with its failures, flaws, and successes - has never been more hotly debated and analyzed than it is today. This landmark work examines the dynamics of judgment and its impact on events which require the direction and control of social policy. Drawing on 50 years of empirical research in judgment and decision making, Hammond examines the possibilities for wisdom and cognitive competence in the formation of social policies, and applies these lessons to specific examples, such as the space shuttle Challenger disaster and the health care debate. Uncertainty, he tells us, can seldom be fully eliminated; thus error is inevitable, and injustice for some unavoidable. But the capacity for making wise judgments increases to the extent that we understand the potential pitfalls and their origin."

"Human judgment and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice"
"Human judgment and social policy irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice"
"Human judgment and social policy irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice"@en
"Human judgement and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice"@en
"Human judgement and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice"

Human judgment and social policy irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice